Bunbury

Bunbury,bunburyEncyclopædia Britannica, Inc.town and seaport, southwestern Western Australia, south of Perth and Fremantle. It lies on the southern shore of Koombana Bay just below Leschenault Inlet, fed by the Collie and Preston rivers. Founded in 1843 and named for Lieutenant Henry William St. Pierre Bunbury, who explored the area, it was by 1976 the largest urban centre in the state apart from metropolitan Perth. Bunbury is an outlet for the export of timber, wheat, wool, dairy products, and fruit of the southern farmlands; for coal from nearby Collie Field; for alumina; and for ilmenite and other heavy minerals that are extracted from ... (100 of 197 words)